New node won't connect to existing nodes without manually providing HELLO message

[marty1885]

Hi,

Sorry it's me again.

Today I was setting up 2 new nodes at a new location for my experiments. 
However, I fail over and over to connect them to the GNUnet network. I've tried 
adding my existing nodes via hello using the peerinfo tool. But the node 1. 
takes about 30min to establish a connection to the other node. If that happens 
at all. 2. Afterwards, it node is not making new peers. Thus is the node I 
added manually goes down, that node is also disconnected from GNUnet.

Also, I have tried bootstraping off my node's hostlist. I have also tried 
enabling the -e -b flag of the hostlist daemon. Still can't get the node to 
connect to others.

How can I solve this? Is there a drastic change recently leading to 
bootstrapping so difficult?

Hopefully these information helps

Currently, the new nodes are setup with connections to my other node

❯ gnunet-core
Sun Jul 23 14:06:48 2023: connection established         CCXH (timeout in  299 
s)

However, I can find many more peers in peerinfo

Peer `V8XXK9GAN5ZJFRFQP8MQX3D83BZTSBQVHKWWD0JPE63Z821906EG'
Peer `7WRDFAMRXJ14K752Z2SF9SSD3VR5XAVKPEBJ19ZKA2M6QHT3YBV0'
........

But gnunet-cadet -P shows I have no path to all of them (besides the ones I 
added manually).

008Q3SKSXDAQDBMKZSJ4VHPVV2ZNG9PF783RA4132SD96PRJZ1Z0 tunnel: N, paths: 0
CCXHBE49GRQVFAVFQ3BXVXPHHD63NG6ZNY31R0F59KVDZQA42PTG tunnel: N, paths: 1
5GYZVBTD5K0WCSVQGRHG18ZDBC3TT6905M34R9WKWQZHD906PDBG tunnel: N, paths: 0
DSTJBRRKZ8TBW3FGK6B0M5QXWT9WYNZ45H5MCV4HY7ST64Q8T9F0 tunnel: N, paths: 0
DRD47JG4E9X1B67TXHV9M6V03RYD415FGCSA63X11F23NRRXDQFG tunnel: N, paths: 0
1YGNJFY3VM6VQYY9M8K80ZZ9233TCBSZDQG93NSJM7J0T47D9VY0 tunnel: N, paths: 1
Y924NSHMMZ1N1SQCE5TXF93ED6S6JY311K0QT86G9WJC68F6XVZ0 tunnel: N, paths: 0
2WWVHMQX4DY90K3N9BFJXSZZ6F7E85VCJ66MYD1RG5BGMXBAY9FG tunnel: N, paths: 0
V8XXK9GAN5ZJFRFQP8MQX3D83BZTSBQVHKWWD0JPE63Z821906EG tunnel: N, paths: 0
VQPDVF1QZ7QV6JQATFATYBSA3SAQQ0F6VM5VZK264S5EVXPB8ZX0 tunnel: N, paths: 0
KW7VNM3R256MCFBA5BJ644NXQC9NX58VRFBSQB15M76B4YTQR10G tunnel: N, paths: 0
7XF202E96N2THGAGXZ00M15GJGH7K4V1S29KHWV3031WM96PE16G tunnel: N, paths: 0

Best,
Martin